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Maine TREE Foundation to Honor 2023 Forest Award Recipients
Maine Timber Research & Environmental Education Foundation (Maine TREE) is proud to announce the winners of the 2023 Austin H. Wilkins...
Hope Light
Sep 18, 20233 min read
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Empowering the Future of Maine’s Forests
Old Town Elementary third-graders at NELA Logging Expo in Bangor Written by: Gavriela Mallory Investment in green workforce development...
Hope Light
Jun 29, 20236 min read
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The Importance of Maine’s Family Forest Owners
Forestry 101 participants at Blue Hill Mountain. Written by Gavi Mallory Family-owned woodlots comprise over 30% of Maine’s forest, more...
Hope Light
Apr 26, 20234 min read
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Fall Foliage Brings the Green to Maine
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer Autumn, or at least the fall foliage part of autumn, is rapidly disappearing in the rear...
Hope Light
Nov 6, 20194 min read
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Aging Sentinels: the roadside maples of Maine
Travel the rural roads in this part of the country and you’ll see them along roadsides and driveways and in yards. Green in summer, a...
Hope Light
Mar 6, 20195 min read
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Moosehead Lake Region
The Moosehead Lake area has been a destination for a long time. Native Americans came hundreds of miles to collect the rare igneous rock...
Hope Light
Oct 26, 20187 min read
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Maine Wood Manufacturers are still an Important Part of the Economy
They produce gun stocks, flooring, cedar shingles, log homes, wooden playsets. They make cigar tips, wooden pack baskets, doors and...
Hope Light
Feb 27, 20186 min read
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Maine Heritage Timber: Retrieving Old Growth Wood from a Lake
Tom Shafer’s business is mining trees. It’s not really harvesting; maybe re-harvesting. “Recovering a forgotten forest” is his company...
Hope Light
Nov 20, 20176 min read
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For This Wood Pellet Manufacturer, Small is Beautiful
Erik Carlson remembers exactly where he was when he got the idea of getting into the wood pellet manufacturing business. It was September...
Hope Light
Oct 21, 20165 min read
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Bright spots in Maine’s forest products industry
New mills, investments and products help offset losses in some sectors By JOE RANKIN Forests for Maine’s Future Writer When Verso Paper...
Hope Light
Nov 24, 20146 min read
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University Forests: Research, education and income
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future writer With not quite 14,000 acres, the University Forests aren’t in the big leagues of Maine...
Hope Light
Mar 20, 20147 min read
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Maine’s Forest Economy: a new report
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future writer Stand on almost any hill in Maine, any mountaintop, and you’ll see forest, a blanket of...
Hope Light
Oct 26, 20136 min read
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Carbon offsets: A new forest ‘product’?
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future writer Over the centuries the only way to make money if you owned a woodland was cut down the...
Hope Light
Sep 25, 20138 min read
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The Maine Forest Products Council
Educating lawmakers and public about one of Maine’s biggest industries When the Maine Legislature is in session Patrick J. Strauch spends...
Hope Light
Aug 21, 20137 min read
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The Future of Forest Products in Maine Tour
New composites, nanocellulose coatings, liquid fuels are on the horizon By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer Dwane Hutto is...
Hope Light
Nov 28, 20128 min read
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Sappi Westbrook: Papermaking on the fashion frontier
A venerable paper mill is the world leader in release papers By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future writer The names paper...
Hope Light
May 24, 20128 min read
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Maine’s public lands: recreation, wildlife habitat, timber
These parcels aren’t as well known as the state’s parks, but that’s changing By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer When most...
Hope Light
Apr 26, 20128 min read
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Where the wood flows . . . and why
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future writer You’re driving down a Maine highway, following a logging truck that’s teetering and...
Hope Light
Feb 26, 20126 min read
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The modern sawmill: a high tech marvel
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer Watching the edger-optimizer at Robbins Lumber Co.’s pine mill in Searsmont induces,...
Hope Light
Dec 21, 20116 min read
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Forest products: it’s not all about logs
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer As a young boy in the 1940s Richard Nadeau frequently spent time in the remote lumber...
Hope Light
Nov 23, 20118 min read
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